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Peninsula Community Health Services outlines expanded services, economic impact to assembly
Summary
Peninsula Community Health Services (PCHS) CEO Ben Wright presented an overview of the nonprofit federally qualified health center’s services — primary care, dental, behavioral health, optometry, physical therapy and 340B prescription program — and reported about 40,000 patient visits annually and economic benefits to the borough.
Ben Wright, chief executive officer of Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska, told the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on June 3 that the nonprofit federally qualified health center (FQHC) provides a broad range of services across the borough, serves anyone who walks in the door and reported approximately 40,000 patient visits per year.
Wright described medical services (primary care for all ages, preventive care and women’s health), dental services (with limited dentist capacity and three months’ appointment wait for general dentistry), optometry services, physical therapy, and a behavioral‑health clinic that includes psychiatry and psychiatric nurse practitioners. He also described the 340B prescription program, which Wright said offers…
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